Hello. I started this before I went on holiday so it’s a bit of a bumper edition. Enjoy with ya teapot on Sunday morning. Quite a bit caught my eye (in amongst the ridiculous royal “exclusives” that I started to read for #royalpileofshit when normally I would avoid them like the proverbial), but these things…

For the last few months I’ve been posting pics of the royal family just doing regular stuff like regular humans to my Instagram Stories and having a merry old time doing so. I have been asked if I could start a whole account doing exactly that, and who am I to deny the public what…

True to form, my neglectful gardening (to be fair I was gone for two weeks) has rendered me with a fairly shit garden so far. Where I could have had trusses of lovely organic tomatoes, I have trusses of dry, dead blossoms that shrivelled up well before their time. I have a handful of happy…

AKA I’m at that part of the process where this manuscript seems like the longest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. The more I work on it, the bigger it seems to get, like some time-morphing Alice in Wonderland bad dream. I’m also at the point where finishing the first draft seems so far…

Ok so should we start with the spiced eggnog bread and butter pudding from the other day? I would. In fact I started with it and I have almost singlehandedly finished it. It really is that good. I also absolutely ruined a pumpkin soup yesterday and I seriously don’t know how. Pumpkin, onion, potato, bay…

It’s a little bit cooler here today thanks to the rain brought on by Cyclone Owen hanging out all up and down the country, and it gave me feeeeeelings about having a bread and butter pudding for dessert. I don’t often ignore these dessert feelings (or any food feelings, actually) and before I knew it,…

This has become somewhat of an obsession for me, this cheesy polenta/egg combo – for several reasons. It’s quick, you can make tons of it in advance, and it’s FRICKEN DELICIOUS. I get asked a lot what to do with polenta to make it actually taste like food and not glue, and two of my…

Are you a Kate fan? Know someone who is? (ok, besides me!) Treat them – or yo’self – to some royally-approved items this Christmas that are not only available to the general public but also within the more familiar non-royal budgets… I don’t know about you but I so very rarely find myself with a…